After being left derelict and unloved for decades, London’s extensive canal network is having its time in the spotlight as city planners switch their focus from riverside regeneration..

The Grand Union Canal Race runs from Birmingham to London ... minutes at 100 miles and pushing each other the whole way into town. In a fitting tribute to Dick Kearn’s last year as organiser ...

Plans have been unveiled for a new £900,000 footbridge spanning the Grand Union Canal in Leicester. The city council says the bridge will connect Belgrave to Sock Island - the site of the former ...

Tranquil times travelling the canal network Remember to steer the OPPOSITE way to where you want to go. As novices we’d decided to cruise west along the Grand Union Canal to Bugbrooke (no locks ...

Charity Swan Support said it began at the end of September when volunteers discovered several of the dead birds along the Grand Union Canal in Bankside, Southall. Since then, the charity says it ...

A large area of west London’s Grand Union Canal has been polluted by cooking oil that is thought to have been dumped there deliberately. The Canal and River Trust has begun a major clean-up ...

Rescuers at the Swan Sanctuary, based in Shepperton, have worked hard to keep wildlife safe after a cooking oil spill spread for nearly six miles along the Grand Union Canal on February 9.